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<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and the Room Temperature Collective</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Present<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">Getting to Room Temperature <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">By Arthur Milner<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">November 13-15, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">214 College Street, 3<sup>rd</sup> Flr<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US">New play by Arthur Milner embraces dying in Canada<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How do you go about helping someone to die? No. How do you go about helping your mother die, because she’s asked you? Should you? Do you? How would you do it? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Arthur Milner</span></b><span lang="EN-US">’s </span><b><i>Getting to Room Temperature</i></b><i> </i><span lang="EN-US">invites audiences to look at aging and dying in Canada in this beautiful and searing play that will leave audiences laughing through tears and grateful for the lives we share. In a celebrated return to the stage, award-winning actor <b>Robert Bockstael</b> tackles this provocative new play, designed by <b>Martin Conboy </b>and <b>Sue Fijalkowska</b>, with dramaturgy by <b>Maureen Labonté</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In February 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that desperately suffering patients have a constitutional right to doctor-assisted suicide. Now, a new Parliament has been elected and doctor-assisted suicide is sure to become an issue of debate in the coming months. </span><b><i>Getting to Room Temperature</i></b><span lang="EN-US"> is timely and vital, a response to a question that lies at the heart of our lives: “What makes a good death?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Getting to Room Temperature</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US">charts the beautiful life and poignant death of Milner’s mother, while engaging audiences in a daring, personal, and great debate of our time. In a tour-de-force performance, Bockstael guides the audience through a minefield of emotional and ethical turmoil, and brings a much-needed conversation to the Canadian stage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Getting to Room Temperature</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US"> is on for <b>only four nights</b> in Toronto. Don’t miss it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Add to listings immediately:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">The Room Temperature Collective, in association with the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, proudly presents:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Getting to Room Temperature<br />
</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US">written and directed by<b> Arthur Milner<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">performed by <b>Robert Brockstael<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">lighting, sound and set design by <b>Martin Conboy<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">costume design by <b>Sue Fijalkowska <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">assistant directed and produced by <b>Jenny Salisbury<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">stage management <b>Jessica Watkin<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">production assistants <b>Danielle Alfaro</b> and <b>Tita Kyrtsakas</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">November 11, 13 – 15, 2015 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">The Robert Gill Theatre, </span></b><span lang="EN-US">214 College Street, 3<sup>rd</sup> floor, Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Wednesday, Friday & Saturday, 8pm; Sunday at 2 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Tickets: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Wednesday, November 11 – PWYC preview- email <a href="mailto:rebecca.biason@utoronto.ca ">rebecca.biason@utoronto.ca </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Friday – Sunday, $20, $10 for students. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For tickets, please contact<b> </b>UofTTix online box office, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.uofttix.ca/roomtemperature">www.uofttix.ca/roomtemperature</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">416-978-8849<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.roomtemperaturecollective.com">www.roomtemperaturecollective.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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